Asking the big questions on this year's bonfire night.

Lewes Pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2021/nov/05/freedom-debauchery-dissent-lewes-bonfire-celebrations-in-pictures

The Gunpowder Plot | Guy Fawkes Documentary | Reel Truth Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1b2w4G

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I watched the ring this week and it got me obsessing over the idea of haunted technology.

The Big Ben thoughtograph

https://cdm16629.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Eisenbud/id/305/rec/3

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It turns out Victorian people were tatted up much more than I ever thought.

Convict tattoo search:

https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/search?e0.type.t.t=root&e0._all.s.s=&e0.surname.s.s=&e0.given.s.s=

Deserter tattoo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mark_of_a_deserter.jpg

John Jackson Criminal Records:

https://talis.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fNAME_INDEXES$002f0$002fNAME_INDEXES:1404974/one

Francis Robinson Cunt My Delight (right page):

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON18-1-26/CON18-1-26P134

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The Rebecca riots are an infamous time in Welsh history, where farmers, struggling to make ends meet, decided to go on secret raids, where they dressed as women and burned the whole country down.

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Back in 2016 I learnt how to freeze people and revive them in hundreds of years.

It was weird, let's talk about it.

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And another kid crosses the county lines

the kids near here whizz

with the fizz

of electric bikes,

crossing county lines

delivering grass,

sherbet ,

panda pops,

dropping off packages

which adults are too scared to,

delivering things you can’t find in the local shop.

delivering things that help a woman in a damp, Welsh, inner-city estate forget about the sound of the water drumming her warped, mossy roof.

delivering things that teenagers huff, before puffing up their chests to fresh music in rotting parks.

delivering things that pensioners want you hung for using, before oiling arthritic hinges with lukewarm whiskey.

delivering nectar so sweet, a man can ignore the tragedy of the balaclava wrapped, cherub-faced delivery driver facing him,

when tragedy drops off a ticket

for a trip out of this town.

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The state of this visit

we peasants gaze

as greasy hands from distant lands

slap together and shake up our lives.

as foie gras & faux pas

are washed down with Bordeaux grapes

older than the states that guzzle them.

& when the helicopters leave,

ties loosened,

& we breathe

what are we left with?

empty plates

and fake tan under our fingernails.

I had to write something about the Trump state visit didn't I?

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Paper cuts and hi-vis thugs

I watched hi-vis thugs round up the old

for carrying placards with human dreams

nuns

veterans

teachers

miners

plumbers

dragged them along double yellow lines

and locked them behind Majorica pearl gates.

Ever got a paper cut from a nun

Holding a protest sign?

Carves up your soul

And serves you to her God for judgement.

she’s not scared

of some corporeal cell

held together with taxes

and mortal subservience.

I swear

If Jesus walked these streets today

a British copper would cuff that commie cunt

and read him his rights,

throw him in the back of a van,

go through his laptop

lookin for clues of conspiracies,

of mania

“this bloke thinks he’s the son of god”

they’d say

before having him sectioned.

and when I’m at those gates

at the end of it all

and St Peter says to me

Ever got a paper cut from a nun?

I’ll say.

I’m not a copper.

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